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District of Columbia
Educational data warehouse system: confidentiality of student and staff data, University of the District of Columbia participation and student identifiers
In force since .
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- Obligation class
- Governance, Security
What it requires
- If you are the Office of the State Superintendent of Education, develop and implement, in coordination with the Office of the Chief Technology Officer, a longitudinal educational data warehouse system for use by the Office, the University of the District of Columbia, public schools, public charter schools, publicly funded educational programs, policymakers, institutions of higher education and researchers (section 38-2609(a)).
- Maintain the confidentiality of individual student and staff data in the system, in accordance with District of Columbia and federal confidentiality laws, rules, and regulations (section 38-2609(b)(3)).
- If you are the University of the District of Columbia, a public school, a public charter school or an entity administering a publicly funded educational program, submit to the Office of the State Superintendent of Education, on its request, the necessary data pertaining to students, teachers, coursework, curricula, and school levels, within a reasonable time and in the standardized format the Office establishes (section 38-2609(c)(2)).
- If you are a provider of public education in the District of Columbia, including the University of the District of Columbia, participate in the educational data warehouse system (section 38-2609(d)(1)).
- If you are the Office of the State Superintendent of Education, ensure that a unique identifier is assigned to every student of the University of the District of Columbia the first time the student receives educational services from a provider of public education in the District of Columbia (section 38-2609(e)(2) and (3)).
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What this law does
The Office of the State Superintendent of Education, in coordination with the Office of the Chief Technology Officer, must develop and implement a longitudinal educational data warehouse system to be used by, among others, the University of the District of Columbia and institutions of higher education.
The system is to improve information exchanges while maintaining the confidentiality of individual student and staff data, in accordance with District of Columbia and federal confidentiality laws, rules, and regulations.
On the request of the State Superintendent, the University of the District of Columbia, public schools, public charter schools and entities administering publicly funded educational programs must submit necessary data pertaining to students, teachers, coursework, curricula, and school levels to the Office of the State Superintendent of Education. All providers of public education in the District of Columbia, including the University of the District of Columbia, must participate in the system.
The Office of the State Superintendent of Education must ensure that a unique identifier is assigned to every student of the University of the District of Columbia, the first time the student receives educational services from a provider of public education in the District of Columbia. Section 38-2609 was added on .
Section 22(b) of the Education Code Adjustments Amendment Act of 2026 added coursework and curricula to the data submitted to the Office of the State Superintendent of Education, and extended the submission to the course-coding system. That amendment took effect on .
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